RE: How to act in the world from a place of true purpose
This is something I have recently come across and I want to study it. But just reading this blog i've come up against some brick walls.
What if you experience anger and hatred from seeing another being, human or animal, who cannot defend itself being mistreated, and you're in a position to say something or take action.
I can make sense of what you're saying on a personal level, but i react extremely strongly to injustices on others and have been in situations where love just is not going to work, you have to tackle somethings fire with fire and i struggle to ponder it on a larger societal scale. I have not read it, so that would help i know. I have been reading about it, and lots of blogs written about it to help me decide if i should get it. But there are things that i have not seen anyone discuss, for example, children kidnapped into a sexual slavery- in order to be rescued often violence and brute force is needed to help them, you have to be the kind of person who is willing to deploy that force to save the life of another, are they wrong to do so?
Here it is important to differentiate between what is called in A Course in Miracles "content" vs. "form".
This is a recurring topic, that leads to many confusions for spiritual students. Your question is focused on the level of form - what is right to do and how to act. This is never the real problem. Just do, whatever you want to do. You can fight for childrens rights or just be upset about the injustice you perceive in the world. From the spiritual perspective it makes no difference - even though we love to think, that if we care about the level of form in a "spiritual" manner, we are more advanced. On the level of content however, we are invited to look at all the ways we want to feel special in how advanced kind and caring we are and how a good person we are, because we "fight for a good and just cause". This need of our ego to feel special in fighting for good causes is the real spiritual topic that we are invited to look at.
I already wrote an article, that will talk about this deeper spiritual stuff, that I will publish here end of next week - you may want to read it - although I warn you, because it has the potential to hit your spiritual ego hard and after that you may hate me and everything I write. We have to take this risk 😉
So in other words: On the level of form it doesn't matter how you behave - just do whatever you are guided to do, but watch yourself, whenever you begin to feel guilty about any decision of doing or not-doing something - this is, where you can really advance on your spiritual path. 🕊
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I would not hate you for writing something i did not agree with, this is a crux in itself, people can't differentiate an opinion or view point from the identity of another person. They can start to attack the character of another because they have different stances on a topic, I have actually lost life long friends because of some things I have tried to discuss on facebook, and it's the most ridiculous thing ever. I will jump in and debate until the sun goes down, but still enjoy a drink with them after! Most people don't share this premise though. I would love to read it, and just from what you've explained above there is a lot of truth in what i can perceive is going to be discussed.
Ego can mean different things to different people, and you may think this is typical of what someone would say when they want to feel 'different or special'. But if you have the time and are interested, no worries if not, i have 2 Empathy blogs, part one and two. I only have a handful of blogs so they are easy to spot- but this will highlight for you the paradox i often find my self in. The desire to help does not come from the need to satisfy my ego, the desire to help comes from the necessity to keep my sanity and to alleviate my own suffering, or try to understand it, as i quite very literally feel all sorts of pain from people, animals and the world around me which has driven me to the point of suicide more than once. In the quest to understand why this is, why i experience this, i often land upon writings or teachings of similar ish nature, but it doesn't really give me the answers i seek. It's almost like i don't have a choice.
Anyway, those blogs will give you more insight as to where i am coming from, but you're probably very busy so no worries if you cant. I will keep an eye out for your post and jump in if i have something to say :)
I understand your issue with "feeling other peoples stuff". I struggled with that my whole life. What helped me were the teachings of Matt Kahn. I wrote a lot about it in my "Healing the empathic heart"-Series. It may be easier to find them on my blog https://atmos.black/tag/empath/. Also I wrote some articles about relationships between Empaths and Narcissists.
Even though these teachings are very deep, they should not be confused with what I'm writing here. A Course in Miracles is only about content and not form. It has nothing to do with making this world a better place, but only with waking up.
In the Course everything in this world dream - even empathy - is seen as equal and "meaningless". There is no hierarchy of illusions, is one of its basic premises. This goes way deeper than how to handle empathic depression etc. - so we shouldn't confuse levels here.
If you want to handle your empathy issues, I really recommend to check out Matt. This won't help you waking up, but it will make your dream much smoother. He has lots of free videos on YouTube about this topic.
I wish you all the best on your path and my ❤️ is open to all the suffering you are feeling. I will publish my article I talked about here on friday, but you can already read it on my blog - it's called "Let me sleep! I enjoy dreaming!" and it may be a challenging read for an ego.
Aww thank you so so much for this! Ill be checking his videos out all day now! And ill take a look at your blog links. I am in the process of trying to heal from it and actually start to use to properly rather than just feel like it's this thing leading me around in circles in my life. So any real down to earth assistance I will chase up for sure, there are a lot of people talking about 'empathy' etc who really don't seem to understand the suffering it can cause so don't offer much more assistance than the usual 'woo' doing the rounds online. So thank you so much, i am excited to check out your information!!
Ill definitely read your upcoming blog if not Friday then over the weekend, everyone of us whether we want to admit it or not will have some ego resistance, be interesting to see where mine triggers in the blog.
You've given me that extra step in understanding as to what the ACIM is, and i am very intrigued now.
Been a pleasure chatting with you, im sure we will chat some more :)
Listened to quite a bit of that Matt Dude! He talks a lot of sense! Thank- you :)
You are very welcome! I think, that especially his teachings for empaths can be helpful for you.
e.g. "feeling = clearing stuff out of the collective". Dig for the gold nuggets! Much Love! <3